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Mexico sets Lula FPSO starts up

NEWS

Round 2 terms Production started at the

Mexico’s Ministry of Energy

Cidade de Saquarema ? oat- will auction 15 shallow water ing production and storage areas in the Gulf of Mexico of? oading unit on Petrobras’

The as part of Round 2.1. giant Lula ? eld, offshore blocks up for bid cover 8908sq

Brazil. Production at the ? rst km. The blocks include four well, 8-LL-81D-RJS, stabi- shallow water tracts in the lized at a rate of 30,000 b/d.

Tampico-Misantla basin. The

The Cidade de Saquarema area is thought to contain can process 150,000 bbl, and

J around 480 MMboe prospec- compress up to 6 MMcm/d

G tive resources and an original of natural gas, and is cur- volume of approximately 220 rently moored in 2120m

MMboe. There is one block water depth. The vessel being auctioned off Veracruz, is owned and operated by

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B thought to hold an estimated a joint venture including

A 133MMboe prospective

SBM Offshore, Mitsubishi,

K resources. Lastly, there are 10

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki

F blocks in the basins off the

Kaisha, and Queiroz Galvão southeastern Gulf of Mexico

Óleo e Gás.

E up for grabs, with around 973

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Noble brings Gun? int online

MMboe prospective resources

Noble Energy started production at Gun? int in the deep- and an original volume of 649 water Gulf of Mexico in late July.

MMboe.

The Gun? int oil devel-

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Seismic opment, in Mississippi ramps up off Mexico

Canyon Block 948, is a

Seismic activity offshore subsea tieback to the pic-

Mexico is ramping up with Gulfstar One ( tured recent projects by Searcher ) facility owned by and Fugro. Williams Partners and

Searcher Seismic is acquir- Marubeni Corp. The two-well ? eld is ramping ing the Buscador Near- (5551ft) water depth. The up and is anticipated to Shore 2D seismic survey, Liza wells are in the Stabroek reach a minimum gross offshore Mexico, using the block, some 193km (120mi) production of 20,000 BGP Pioneer vessel in early offshore Guyana. Liza-2 is boe/d, with oil repre- July. The project comprises about 3.3km from Liza-1. 11,200km of high qual- senting approximately

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OGA begins ity, long-offset 2D data and 75% of the volumes pro-

UKCS seismic speci? cally targets the near duced, with 5000 boe/d net to Noble. shore areas covering rounds The UK’s Oil and Gas Au- 2, 3 and 4. thority has begun a seismic

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Fugro has deployed multi- Petrobras Liza-2 shows campaign to collect between divests ? elds billion bbl potential purpose offshore survey 10,000-15,000km of new

Nine shallow water ? elds New drilling results at seismic data from under- vessel Fugro Gauss to join in the states of Ceará and ExxonMobil’s deep water explored frontier areas on the the Fugro Brasilis offshore

Sergipe will be put up for sale Liza discovery offshore UK Continental Shelf. PGS

Mexico. Both Fugro ves- as part of Petrobras’ divest- Guyana have con? rmed vessel the Nordic Explorer sels are using hull-mounted ment plan.The ? elds in Ceará recoverable resources of will carry out seismic sur- multibeam echosounders and include Curimã, Espada, between 800 million and 1.4 veys across the East Shetland sub-bottom pro? ler systems to

Atum, and Xaréu. billion boe. Platform, which includes map an area of approximately In Sergipe, the ? elds are

The Liza-2 well encoun- the East Orkney Basin, East 625,000sq km. The survey is

Caioba, Camorim, Dourado, tered more than 58m (190ft) of Fair Isle Basin and Dutch being conducted for TGS as

Guaricema, and Tatuí. The oil-bearing sandstone reser- Bank Basin. WesternGeco part of its industry-funded, ? elds had an average pro- voirs in Upper Cretaceous for- vessel WG Magellan will multiclient Gigante Survey, duction of 13,000 boe/d in mations. The well was drilled carry out seismic surveys which also includes a regional 2015.

to 5475m (17,963ft) at 1692m around South West Britain, 2D seismic survey.

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